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DOCTRINE OF THE JAIN AS
(pavesana,-naga Viy 439 b) follows distinct rules Pannav. 6 (209 a ff), Viy 24 (805 a ff); Than 58 b teach (what we may be allowed to express by signs of abbreviation ( that HG originate from A5 M, A1-4 from AMG, and A'M from HAMG. By omitting irrelevant limitations we have but to note that the windand fire-beings have no direct pre-existence as gods But the post-existence following immediately may manifest itself (comp. also Suy II 3, 1 ff, 347 a; Pannav 398 ff; Viy 632 b; Than. 58 b, 445 b) in the following way. H to A'M, G to A1.5M, T14 to AM, AM to HAMG. In this case the wind- and firebeings are specialized in that they will not reincarnate into men, whereas gods will not reincarnate into them, as obviously follows from what was said before As we are taught by the formula quoted above, an A'M may even repeatedly appear in the same form of existence. In contrast to the bhava-tthi this is called kāya-ṭthủi (Thān 66 a).1 Pannav 18 (374 a f) deals with it We here but mention the exceptional position taken by the nigoya which is that they are able to remain as such for ∞ time They are those that are refused any higher development (§ 101)
§94. Noxt to the purely systematical representation Viy. gives a number of more lively informations serving confirmation, a fact from which we may conclude that in those days this assertion was considered a novelty Expressly it was disbelief that caused the teaching (Viy 739 b) that an earth-,wateror plant-being in its next existence (uvvattitta) could come to appear in a human shape and gain the Kevala cognition The phenomenon of the hot spring at the foot of the Vebhāra near Rayagiha (Viy 141 a) is brought about by numerous souls destined to have a hot place of origin, and atoms assembling (usina-joniyā jīvā ya poggalā ya) and forming water (udagattae vakkamantı vuukkamantı cayanti uvavajjanti)2, rain originates from the formation of water by udaga-joniya-souls and -atoms; plants live most intensively in summer because then
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I The quantity of life is corresponding called bhav'auya and addhâuya (addha-kala, see the same and 96b)
2 Comp also Surap 321 a
| SR No. | 011097 |
| Book Title | Doctrine of Jainas |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen |
| Publisher | Motilal Banarasidas |
| Publication Year | 1978 |
| Total Pages | 309 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 17 MB |